The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21

" Vermont" The stones will be two by
FIVE feet. Those of Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire will be of native granite, that OF
Vermont the finest blue marble. A prom
inent Massachusetts man has donated the
cost of one from that state, distinguished
citizen of New Hampshire has given the
stone from there and Governor Proctor
donates the one from Vermont.
Hon. JAMES M. TYLER of Brattleboro
who has been appointed to the vacancy in
the supreme court occasioned by the resig-
nation of Judge Walker, was born in Will
mington, VT, in 1895. and is now in his fifty
third year. He graduated at the Albany
Law School, was admitted to the bar of
Windham county in 1860, and soon took
high rank in his profession He represented
Brattleboro in the legislatures of 1868 and
ga, and was states attorney in 1866 and 81.
In 1878 he was elected to represent the sec
ond Vermont district, and was reelected in
1880. His service in the national legislature
was highly creditable to him, and he retired,
upon the reapportionment of 1881, under
which our state lost one of its representa-
tives, with the respect and cordial approval
of his colleagues and constituents. He has
since devoted himself to the practice of his
profession, and ranks in ability and standing
among the ablest members OF the vermont
bar.
In General.
NEW YORK refuses citizenship to Herr
Most
The British parliament was prorogued
Friday.
NATURAL gas has been found below Els
worth, Kan.
BISMARCK has refused to interfere in Bull
garian affairs.
CHAMBERS are reported widespread among
the horses of Connecticut
THE Illinois supreme court decides that
the Chicago anarchists must be executed.
~
Troy, N. Y, died last week of consumption.
EVERY county in Florida which has voted
on the question of local option has adopted
it.
PRESIDENT KING of the Erie railway has
been offered the presidency of the Baltimore
& Ohio.
PHILIP ARMOUR has given $500 900 for the
establishment of a children's mission in
Chicago.
ONE HUNDRED houses have been burned
in Newell, Russian Poland Twelve persons
persisted.
CHICAGO, st. Louis, Cincinnati and Buff
falo are bidding for the republican national
convention.
IT is again affirmed that the President will
make Secretary Lamar the successor of
Justice Woods
A TRUSTEE of Plymouth church says he
does not think any Englishman will be
called as pastor.
A LARGE number of gambling dens were
broken up in Wilmington, Del. and their
keepers arrested.
SENATOR SHERMAN delivered his first
speech in the Ohio campaign at Whining
ton last Thursday.
BOTH parties to the Concord railroad fight
have agreed that debate on the question
shall close tomorrow.
FIFTY carloads of Grand Army veterans
have left California for the national en-
campment at st. Louis.
COMMANDER. IN-CHIEF FAIRcHILD of the
Grand Army of the Republic declines to be
a candidate for reelection.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES delivered long adj
dress at the opening of the international
prison congress at Toronto.
REPORTS from the bean-growing localities
of western New York indicate that the bean
crop of this year is very light.
PRESIDENT DIAz of Mexico recently sent
body of troops to compel cruel landlord to
pay his help in cash instead of beans.
A DISASTER on the Midland railroad in En-
gland is reported, in which twenty lives or
more were lost and seventy persons injured.
A CONFERENCE of Irish landlords, held
in Dublin last week, unanimously declared
that rents are reasonable throughout the
island
IT is reported to the department at Wash
ington that "A dangerous contagious disease
exists in Nova Scotia among CATTLE horses
and sheep
THREE soldiers engaged in sprnkling car
bolic acid in the streets of Trapani, Italy, as
a disinfectant against cholera, were killed by
the people.
THE Reading railroad grants the demand
of the striking miners, and the impending
spread of the trouble all through the mines
is avoided.
SUNDAY was the one hundredth ami
versary of the laying of the cornerstone of
the capitol at Washington by General
Washington.
DR.. RICHARD GUAM, who died at London
Saturday, at the age of seventy-one, was a
well-known physician and writer on med
ical subjects.
AN explosion of powder in burning store
at New Orleans killed Shop-owner Messina
his wife and four children who were sleep
ing overhead.
ABOUT one hundred French fishing ves-
sells were more or less damaged by the recent
severe gales on the Grand Banks, and at
least fifty lives were lost.
A CONSIDERABLE part of the large stock of
wheat in Chicago elevators has been held
for several years, and is now reported in a
much damaged condition.
HERR JOHANN MOST, speaking at Astoria,
denounced the condemnation of the Chicago
anarchists and predicted terrible things to
happen if they are hanged
IT is stated that DR.. Charles f. Simmons,
who attended the Hon. Samuel j. Tilden in
his last illness, has presented bill for S143,-
600 to the trustees of the estate.
THE signal office will be discontinued at
Mount Washington, n. H., during the win
ter. Operations will be resumed in June,
when the railroad begins to run again.
THE Iowa supreme court has decided that
the prohibition law authorizes the state
! authorities to prevent the expectation OF
| spirits as well as their use in the state.
THE destruction by the floods on the
than at first supposed. For three hundred
fifty miles there are numberless washouts.
THE forest fires in the vicinity of Koehler
| Mich, are again raging as badly as ever
| and if long, soaking rain does not come
soon the section will not have a standing
| tree left.
THE municipal council of Queenstown
Ireland, adopted resolution condemning
the Mitchellstown police for " cold-blooded
murder" and copy was presented tC
OBrien in his cell.
EX-GOVERNOR LUKE p. BLACKBURN o
Kentucky died at his home at Frankfor
last week, at the age of seventy-one. III,
was physician by profession, "A brother Of
Senator Blackburn.
THE cholera affliction of the inhabitants
of Messina, Italy, is Of the most violen
character, death frequently ensuing an hou